Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 21

A jAiuM'fcdig mMMUh Miiditfiii NriM KhNl diM Vfw Berlin Elliott latest to feel effect of ratings DOUGLAS DURDEN at WFRV-TV in Green Bay Wis "What we see in the Alexanders is a very warm and personable pair of anchors in addition to being very journalistically Cheatwood said "The one thing you always look for in an anchor team is chemistry and I can tell there's a lot of natural chemistry between the Cheatwood who came to Channel 8 since Elliott and Miss Berlin became anchors about to say that a new anchor team automatically means better ratings "I think there's more that goes into that You have to win the public confidence and prove to them that the new look put on the air is better than the old one a major task you always face when you bring in new Those new faces are expected to go on the air Sept 8 Jeff Michael and Denise Dory will co-anchor the 8 pm newscast and Michael will go solo on the 11 pm newscast until then What about the faces? Elliott says he's pursuing another TV assignment and that some nibbles" have come in Mias Berlin said she might take some time off and then pursue some things in and out iff television According to a source at the station an face will be returning to Channel 8 Ken Strayhorn who left two years ago for WVUE-TV in New Orleans is said to be coming back to his job as WXEX sports director sending interim sports director Vernon Glenn back to weekend duties Television new can be one of the toughest of careen and there is no better example than firing of WXEX-TV co-anchors Bud Elliott and Barbara Berlin Although Channel 8 bad obviously been in negotiation with replacements Mark and Paula Alexander (who will be the area's first husband-and-wife anchor team) their predecessors ex pressed some surprbe over their dismissal In fact Miss Berlin bad just returned from covering Liberty weekend in New York for the station when she was notified she no longer had a job The reason for the swift and total changes? In a word ratings Elliott formerly a Cable News Network weekend anchor and Miss Berlin a reporter for Channel 8 before her promotion took over the anchor spot two years ago It was the same season that saw a new set of co-anchors at WTVR Channel 6 and the replacement of a co-anchor at WWBT Channel 11 But Channel 8 entered that fray with a handicap Channel 8 had brought back Charles Fishburne previously a popular anchor at Channel 12 and Channel 12 still had the familiar presence of Gene Cox while adding Sabrina Squire Channel 8 may have been a contender for second place even an occasional first back in its Janet Peckinpaugh-Jim Bailey heyday but during the last two years it has slipped to third and only occasionally second in the 6 and 11 pm news ratings although the ratings did show a slight improvement in May It was that improvement that made the recent events a surprise to Elliott and Miss Berlin was somewhat surprising since we were trending Elliott said about his dismissal not Number 1 but we're headed in the right Miss Berlin said she had an idea that there would be a change "but the ratings were better in the last Channel 8 News Director Joel Cheatwood talks about and "chemistry" when talking about his anchors immediate past and immediate future "With Bud and Barbara over the past two years become apparent that their style and the combination was not what Richmond wanted In another market another time frame both could be very successful but at this time in Richmond not what the market From Channel S's viewpoint what the market needs is warmth and that leads to the Alexanders of Cleveland television he from WEWS and she from WKYC Previously they worked as anchors 12 named to receive national arts medal and declarer will eventually have to surrender a diamond trick for down one See what happens if declarer does not cover the jack iff hearts If East overtakes to switch to a dub declarer will get two diamond discards on hearts Therefore East must play low But now declarer can take a ruffing finesse for the ace iff hearts and discard a club oo the other heart honor after drawing trumps limiting his losers to one trick in each side suit leads the jack iff hearts The fact that so much of values are in hearts places the contract in jeopardy Fran the auction and the opening lead it seems likely that West has the ace-queen iff dubs and East the ace of hearts Therefore declarer is in danger of losing one heart trick one diamond and two clubs unless East can be kept off lead If declarer puts up one of heart honors at trick one East will win and shift to a dub That will net the defenders the first three tricks BRIDGE By Charles Goren and Omar Sharif Both vulnerable West deals NORTH 4 18 8 7 VKQ63 986 484 WEST EAST 432 44 VJ5 YA108742 J7 4 10 5 3 4AQJ9752 4 10 3 SOUTH 4AQJ9S5 9 AK42 4K6 EDYINGICKOUD ISVPEB ScEATOOcD 004 Dabnay Road Dial 355-6412 WEEKDAY LUNCHEON SPECIALS tupAi I0L-V TOO NAUGHTY TO SAY NO XXX TVKiviTi meuftinnnr ADULTS $250 i DURING 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singing at Constitution HalL She gave her concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial De Kooning who was born in the Netherlands was a leader of abstract expressionism His gigantic canvases were slashed with color Miss De Mille who choreographed in 1942 bought the techniques of ballet to Broadway musicals including Miss La Gallienne founded several theater companies and appeared in repertory productions on Broadway Mumford an architecture critic is author of "The City in and "The Culture of Miss Welty a major force in Southern fiction won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Lomax an anthropologist at Columbia University traveled rural areas in the 1930s recording regional folk music preserving it for posterity He later helped popularize folk music and such singers as Woody Guthrie in a program on CBS Ms de Menil with her late husband John built one of the greatest private art collections in world It will be publicly exhibited in a museum scheduled to open in Houston this October She helped finance the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum Knox founded the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo NY and established the Seymour Knox Foundation which gave the museum more than 600 works of art He has supported the arts for mow than 60 years Exxon has supported arts broadcasts on public television including and "Live Fran Lincoln Tffiifrrtiy I irr I el poma or vegaUM to day $395 $495 $495 $495 $650 Ml Band nda aid muflkn THIS 285-1567 RIDGE LMfflB 1:25 3:205:20 7:259:30 GNH 272-9300 I MIDLOTHIAN TMwaianiMHKE 1:15 3:205:20 7259:35 ADULTS S250 Id SHOW I MIDLOTHIAN 7903 MIDLOTHIAN 272-0300 12:20 2JS 4:50 7:05 9:25 MULT8 250 1st SHOW Opening lead: Jack of Much declarer play technique centers on keeping the danger hand off lead a situation that crops up more frequently than one would imagine and the winning line dudes many South's first problem is what to do when pre-empt gets passed around to him Since he might not be able to curb his enthusiasm for hearts if he were to make a takeout double a bid of three spades is preferable at this vulnerability it must show a fair hand four spades ends the auction and West GE unit official to succeed Tinker? WASHINGTON (AP) Robert Wright president of General Electric Financial Services is in line to become chief executive officer of NBC when Grant Tinker leaves around Labor Day a trade journal said yesterday Wright 43 left GE in December 1979 to become president of Cox Cable but returned to GE in May 1983 and became president of the highly profitable financial service division which indudes GE Credit Corp in March 1984 1 Start CM (PG) Mi til fns SIM Ml 9717-0844 IIJIHIWH WASHINGTON (AP) A dozen artists and art patrons including film maker Frank Capra composer Aaron Copland and contralto Marian Anderson have been chosen for this year's National Medal of Arts citations The other recipients announced by the White House yesterday include the painter Willem De Kooning choreographer Agnes de Mille actress Eva La Gallienne scholar Alan Lomax literary critic Lewis Mumford and writer Eudora Welty Three patrons of the arts were singled out by President Reagan They are Exxon Corp Dominique de Menil and Seymour Knox The medals will be presented at a White House luncheon Monday The National Medal of Arts was proposed by Reagan in 1983 as a way to honor artists and art patrons Congress passed legislation on Jan 23 1984 authorizing the president to award the medal The first awards were presented last year Capra known for his stylish comedies of the 1930s and made more than 80 movies Copland won the Pu- Pendergrass leaves intensive care unit PHILADELPHIA (AP) Singer Teddy Pendergrass left intensive care yesterday and will go home Friday if he continues his recovery from last auto accident a hospital spokesman said Pendergrass 36 was listed in good condition said George Hatzfeld spokesman for Osteopathic Medical Center Pendergrass had surgery to repair a gash in his liver after crashing his van into a utility pole Thursday Dell concert The Robbin Thompson Band will play a program of beach music at 8:15 tonight on the Dogwood Dell stage fishing TRIPS! 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